Overview

Womanism Rising concludes Layli Maparyan’s three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work by emerging womanist authors who expand the womanist idea while extending womanism to new sites, new problems, and new audiences. Maparyan organizes the contributions around five key ideas. The first section looks at womanist self-care as a life-saving strategy. The second examines healing the Earth as a prerequisite to healing ourselves. In Part Three, the essays illuminate how womanism’s politics of invitation provides a strategy for enlarging humanity’s circle of inclusion, while Part Four considers womanism as both a challenge and antidote to dehumanization. The final section delves into womanism’s potential for constructing worlds and futures. In addition, Maparyan includes a section of works by womanist visual artists. Defiant and far-sighted, Womanism Rising takes readers on a journey into a new generation of concepts, ideas, and strategies for womanist studies.

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Author:   Layli Maparyan ,  AnaLouise Keating ,  Layli Maparyan ,  Osizwe R.J. Harwell
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780252046230

ISBN 10:   0252046234
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Introduction, Womanism Rising—Womanist Studies on Its Own Layli Maparyan Part I. We Must Recover Ourselves Before We Heal the World: Womanist Self-Care Who Cares About Black Women? Burnout, Self-Care, and Contemporary Black Women’s Activism Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell From Disequilibrium, Disease, and Dying to Happiness, Healing, and Health Empowerment Melinda A. Mills Re-envisioning Health: Womanist Ways of Knowing Jameta Nicole Barlow Black Girls Matter: Theorizing Black Girlhood Studies Through Womanism LaShawnda Lindsay Part II. We Cannot Heal Ourselves Without Healing the Earth: Womanist Perspectives on Ecology, Spatiality, and Technology New Modes of Healing: Connecting Earth Justice and Social Justice in Ecowomanism Melanie L. Harris My Life in Your Hands: Womanist Reflections on Love, Space, and Pedagogy Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare Womanist Studies in China: From the 1980s to the Present Xiumei Pu Part III. Enlarging the Kitchen Table: Womanist Politics of Invitation (M)othering: Threshold Theorizing Sufi Womanist Praxis Sara Haq “What’s That Young White Girl Doing Driving Around in Circles?”: A Womanist Reckoning with Toxic White Femininity Susannah Bartlow A Reflection: Creating a World Where We Push Beyond Anti-Blackness, or, What Womanism Has Done for Me Tobias L. Spears On Identity, Language, and Power: A Dialogue on Black Gay Men and Womanism Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood Part IV. A Threat to Sacredness Anywhere Is a Threat to Sacredness Everywhere: Womanist Challenges to Dehumanization Black Skins, Orange Shorts: A Womanist Perspective Rachel Cook Northway If We Bury the Ratchet, We Bury Black Women: A Womanist Analysis of Married to Medicine Heidi R. Lewis Loving Myself as a “Black Male Outsider”: Breaking Silence about Becoming a Womanist Man” Gary L. Lemons The Womanist Work of Healing Black Men and Boys Yolo Akili Robinson Part V. Nurturing the Future We Wish to See: Womanism in Action, Past and Present A Silent and Dignified Army: The Womanist Praxis of the Order of Eastern Star, PHA, 1870–1929 Derrick Lanois Womanist Hip Hop Pedagogy and Collective Spaces for Black Girls Sherell A. McArthur Institutionalizing Africana Empowerment: Resources and Reflections from a Womanist Journey Stephanie Y. Evans Epilogue : Visions of LUXOCRACY Linda Costa Photography: Artist Statement     Banho de Luz (Portrait of Amina Love)     Brandy (Frida)     Lillian Blades (hold the ember)     Kim (Warrior Mama) Debra Elaine Johnson, MFA: Artist Statement     The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene     Vashti Said, No!     Boost      Symbiotic Funk     Untitled Untitled Layli Maparyan About the Authors and Artists Credits Index

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Womanism Rising provides a path for healing, transformation, and wellbeing. Identifying the politics of invitation, promoting love, equating creativity to healing, and engaging in the sacred-political act of affirming the other, Womanism Rising is for everyone! Layli Maparyan delivers a magnum opus in womanism. I highly recommend Womanism Rising--a powerful book!--Lillian Comas-DÍaz, coeditor of Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice

Womanism Rising provides a path for healing, transformation, and wellbeing. Identifying the politics of invitation, promoting love, equating creativity to healing, and engaging in the sacred-political act of affirming the other, Womanism Rising is for everyone! Layli Maparyan delivers a magnum opus in womanism. I highly recommend Womanism Rising--a powerful book!--Lillian Comas-Díaz, coeditor of Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice

Author Information

Layli Maparyan is a professor of Africana studies and executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Womanist Idea and editor of The Womanist Reader.

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